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Robert Brooke papers relating to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
- Title
- Robert Brooke papers relating to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 1796-1845 (bulk 1804-1805).
- Author
- Brooke, Robert, 1770-1821.
- Supplementary Content
- Collection guide and digital images
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | volume 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 403 volume 1 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | box 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 403 box 1 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | other 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 403 other 1 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
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- Additional Authors
- Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820.
- Description
- .42 linear foot (1 box, 1 volume, 1 other item)
- Summary
- Robert Brooke was an American surveyor and civil engineer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Robert Brooke papers relating to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 1796-1845 (bulk 1804-1805), comprise five volumes used by Brooke chiefly during his work on the feeder canal to the proposed main line in 1804 and 1805; papers relating to a survey of private lands near the feeder canal, 1805; and a portfolio of watercolor drawings of aqueducts by the Canal's engineer Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1804. The volumes also include records of Brooke's work for Philadelphia canal companies, 1798-1799 and 1817, and surveys made in Philadelphia, 1806, as well as legal forms for land transactions, 1796-1816. A few manuscript documents, 1796-1845, and a printed broadside addressed to Stockholders of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, 1824, are also present.
- Subjects
- Surveying
- Big Elk Creek (Pa. and Md.)
- Civil engineers
- Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company
- History
- land surveys
- Canals > Design and construction
- United States > Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
- United States > Big Elk Creek
- field notes
- Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation
- Maryland
- New York (State)
- Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Del. and Md.) > History
- Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
- Canals > Delaware
- Gilpin family
- Surveyors
- Canals > New York (State)
- Canals > Pennsylvania
- Canals > Maryland
- Union Canal Company of Pennsylvania
- Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company
- conveyances
- Delaware
- Surveying > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
- technical drawings
- Genre/Form
- History.
- conveyances.
- field notes.
- land surveys.
- technical drawings.
- Access (note)
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
- Digital images must be used in lieu of originals.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Available as digital images.
- Funding (note)
- Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
- Source (note)
- Purchased from Unger, 1919
- Call Number
- MssCol 403
- OCLC
- 758977137
- Author
- Brooke, Robert, 1770-1821.
- Title
- Robert Brooke papers relating to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 1796-1845 (bulk 1804-1805).
- Restricted Access
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.Digital images must be used in lieu of originals.
- Additional Formats
- Available as digital images.
- Funding
- Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
- Source
- Purchased from Unger, 1919
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Civil engineers.Surveyors.
- Added Author
- Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 403